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... That's good as the learning curve for visual amateur astronomy is steep and must be climbed before much can be done with astrophotography. That then as an even steeper and taller learning curve. I've been climbing both for over a half century and still only glimpse the top before it recedes back into the fog of ignorance again. You get there starting simple and growing your gear as your experience allows.

My uncle gave me a stuffed snoopy when I was a child.
I carried it everywhere with me and eventually over the years its neck collapsed (because snoopy has such a big head.)
My grandmother offered to reinforce his neck and I was so excited that he would/could be fixed.
Later, my grandmother brought snoopy to me after his "surgery" with a new collar made of a hawaiian printed fabric.
I was sooooo disappointed. Hawaiian print on snoopy?
I didn't tell her, I just thanked her.
He just wasn't the same after that.
Poor snoopy.